Jasper Johns (book)

Jasper Johns is a non-fiction coffee table book written by Michael Crichton about the artist Jasper Johns. It was originally published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams Inc in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art,^[1] and a second revised edition (ISBN 0810935155) was published in 1994. It is his second non-fiction book.

Jasper Johns

First edition cover
Author	Michael Crichton
Language	English
Publisher	Harry N. Abrams
Publication date	January 1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	248
ISBN	0-8109-1161-2
OCLC	3001846
Dewey Decimal	709/.2/4
LC Class	N6537.J6 .A4 1977
Preceded by	Five Patients
Followed by	Electronic Life

In Crichton's 1972 novel, The Terminal Man, psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting Numbers by Jasper Johns. The technophobic antagonist of the story found it odd that a person would paint numbers as they were inorganic.^[2]

Michael Crichton himself had a serious art collection, including several works by Jasper Johns. Most of them were sold at an auction in Christie’s in 2010.^[3]

References

1. Worldcat entry for 1977 ed.
2. Michael Crichton The Terminal Man New York; Avon Books 2002 p.181
3. "Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton". www.christies.com. Retrieved 2020-08-05.